| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Comparative genomics |
| Chair: Mary-Anne Nelson |
| Introduction Chair |
| Agabian, Nina
Genomic approaches to Candida virulence |
| Susan Forsburg
S. pombe, the model "model eukaryote" |
| Break |
| Galagan, James
The annotation and analysis of the Neurospora genome |
| Rokhsar, Daniel
The genome of Phanerochaete chrysosporium: How
to eat dead wood
|
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Functional genomics |
| Chair: Lisbeth Hamer |
| Introduction Chair |
| Gerstein, Mark
Computational Proteomics: Prediction of protein function on a genome-scale |
| Brent, Roger
Learning to combine directed experimentation with computation for a prototype pathway: the Alpha project |
| Nikolskaya, Tatiana
Metabolic reconstruction of the A. nidulans genome based on EST data |
| Break |
| Shuster, Jeffrey
Annotation of the Neurospora crassa genome using the new bioinformatics tool TSWX |
| Kämper, Jörg
Functional Genomics in Ustilago maydis |
| D'Enfert, Christophe
Identifying essential genes in fungi: transposon mutagenesis and parasexual genetics in the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Fungal pathogens of animals |
| Chair: June Kwon-Chung |
| Introduction Chair |
| Chang, Yun C.
Role of pheromone receptors as environmental sensors and in the pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformans |
| Keath, Elizabeth
Histoplasma capsulatum: beyond a binary view of dimorphism |
| Mitchell, Aaron
Insertional mutagenesis for virulence factor identification in Candida albicans |
| Kronstad, Jim
A SAGE approach to exploring virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fungal pathogens of plants |
| Chair: Anne Osbourn |
| Introduction Chair |
| Talbot, Nick
Developmental biology of appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe grisea |
| Howard, Richard J.
Trends in imaging fungal pathogens and host-plant interactions |
| Kamoun, Sophien
From sequence to phenotype: Functional genomics of the oomycete Phytophthora |
| Break |
| Turgeon, Gillian
Genomic analysis of small molecule production by fungi |
| Osbourn, Anne
Fungal pathogens, antimicrobial phytoprotectants and plant defense |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Fungi as agents of biocontrol and biological warfare |
| Chair: Raymond St. Leger |
| Introduction Chair |
| David Sands
Biocontrol and Boolean Algebra |
| Jonathan Gressel
Transgenic fungi with
"hard" and "soft" hypervirulence genes for biocontrol of weeds |
| Gary Harman
Direct effects of Trichoderma spp. on plant processes |
| Gang Hu
From genomic analysis to field trials with the insect
pathogen Metarhizium anisopliae |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hyphal Growth |
| Chair: Gero Steinberg |
| Introduction Chair |
| Kron, Stephen J.
Cell polarity in budding yeast filamentous growth |
| Bermann, Judith
Cytoskeletal and Cell Cycle eontributions to Candida albicans morphogenesis |
| Break |
| Deising, Holger
Cell wall biogenesis and hyphal growth in the fungal corn pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola |
| Lew, Roger
Fungal Tip Growth: IP3-activated caclium channels generate the obligatory tip-high calcium gradient |
| Steinberg, Gero
A SERCA-like Ca2+ ATPase required for microtubule organization in polar growth of Ustilago maydis |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Fungal molecular ecology |
| Chair: Tom Bruns |
| Introduction Chair |
| James, Tim
Genetic evidence suggests the fungal agent of chytridiomycosis in amphibians is a recently emerged, pandemic clone |
| Pawlowska, Teresa
Organization of genetic variation within individual spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| Bianciotto, Valeria
Endosymbiotic bacteria in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: from morphology to genomic sequences |
| Tayler, Andrew
Molecular analysis of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities on islands of different size: a sampling dilemma |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Gene regulation and development |
| Chair: Miguel A. Peñalva |
| Introduction Chair |
| Perez-Martin, José
Connections between cell cycle and mating in the smut fungus Ustilago maydis |
| Peñalva, Miguel
pH regulation in fungi and yeasts |
| Wendland, Beverly
Mechanisms and regulation of endocytosis in yeast |
| Break |
| Selker, Erik
Control of and function of DNA methylation: lessons from fungi |
| Scazzocchio, Claudio
Chromatin rearrangements in regulated promoters of Aspergillus nidulans |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Late Breaking |
| Chairs: Louise Glass and James Kronstad |
| Introduction Chair |
| Alex Andrianopoulos
The Penicillium marneffei TUP1 homolog controls both pathogenic yeast and infectious spore development |
|
Scott E. Baker
Comparative genomics: Discovery of a fumonisin-like gene cluster in
Cochliobolus heterostrophus |
|
Paul Straight
Tapping the lines of communication between bacteria and filamentous
fungi |
|
Juergen Wendland
Regulation of septation in Ashbya gossypii via Bud3p |
|
Jin-Rong Xu
Further characterization of the PMK1 pathway in Magnaporthe grisea |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
